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How Councils can incorporate GRI sustainability reporting into general activities

How Councils can incorporate GRI sustainability reporting into general activities. Marian Gruber, ZOOiD, GRI Certified Training Partner and Consultant. Workshop goals. Clarify the real meaning of sustainability within the organisational context

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How Councils can incorporate GRI sustainability reporting into general activities

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  1. How Councils can incorporate GRI sustainability reporting into general activities Marian Gruber, ZOOiD, GRI Certified Training Partner and Consultant

  2. Workshop goals • Clarify the real meaning of sustainability within the organisational context • Provide an overview of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting framework • Facilitate how to approach stakeholder identification and working out what is material to them (and to you) • Get you thinking about achievable targets that can be set year on year • Streamline your current reporting and see how easily GRI reporting can be (relatively) easily overlaid. LGPro Conference 16th November, 2013.

  3. What is sustainability? • Some sustainability indicators: • Environmental • Energy • Water • Waste • Social • Diversity of employees • Equal opportunity • Work/life balance • Community • engagement/interaction • Economic • Profit • Cost saving • Growth A GRI sustainability report contains all of this information! LGPro Conference 16th November, 2013.

  4. What is the Global Reporting Initiative? The GRI……… • Is a not for profit organisation • Is a multi-stakeholder based organisation (governance bodies, secretariat, focal points, advisory groups, organisational stakeholders, GRI Certified Training Partners, GRI reporters) • Pioneered the GRI sustainability reporting framework LGPro Conference 16th November, 2013.

  5. What are the benefits of using the GRI sustainability reporting framework? The GRI sustainability report: • Conveys an organisations impact on the environment, society and the economic • Assists in making abstract issues tangible • Helps organisations understand and manage their effects of sustainability developments on their activities and strategy • Provides a tool to communicate transparency LGPro Conference 16th November, 2013.

  6. Some key concepts These two concepts shape your report and should inform the basis of your organisational strategy: • Stakeholder Engagement • Materiality LGPro Conference 16th November, 2013.

  7. What is a stakeholder? A stakeholder is: • An individual or group who impacts or is impacted by an organisation’s activities Stakeholders indirectly impacting or impacted Stakeholders directly impacting or impacted LGPro Conference 16th November, 2013.

  8. Stakeholder Engagement Activity 1: Identify your stakeholders and their main concerns E. E. D B A C G F LGPro Conference 16th November, 2013.

  9. What is materiality? Materiality is the determination of: • A topic or issue that is important to your organisation **Determining what is material to your organisation will help to shape your report and your organisational strategy** LGPro Conference 16th November, 2013.

  10. Determine what is material Activity 2 Plot the stakeholder concerns identified in Activity 1 in the appropriate quadrant. Note: The green dots in this graph represent various aspects placed according to their level of importance when undertaking a materiality assessment. LGPro Conference 16th November, 2013.

  11. Setting targets around material impacts S - Specific M - Measurable A - Achievable R - Relevant T - Time bound LGPro Conference 16th November, 2013.

  12. Streamlining your reporting requirements • Some of these reporting requirements have either: • Direct applicability of GRI indicator • Corporate information available to support indicator • Partial coverage of indicator LGPro Conference 16th November, 2013.

  13. Streamlining your reporting requirements LGPro Conference 16th November, 2013.

  14. Summary • We have covered….. • Sustainability • Sustainability reporting using the GRI framework • Stakeholders • Materiality • Setting targets • Streamlining your current reporting requirements LGPro Conference 16th November, 2013.

  15. And a small plug…. Next GRI workshops: • Melbourne – December 3rd & 4th • Sydney – December 9th & 10th LGPro Conference 16th November, 2013.

  16. Questions? Contact: Marian Gruber ZOOiD 03 9381 0610 or 0409 661 334 LGPro Conference 16th November, 2013.

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